Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Burundi and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Bobby Byrd to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Gerry Rafferty,
Henry Cow,
Pantytec,
Royal Trux,
The United States of America,
the Association,
Spoonie Gee,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bush Tetras,
JFA,
Dead Boys,
Yazoo,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobby Sherman,
Bronski Beat,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moss Icon,
Susan Cadogan,
The Vogues,
Moby Grape,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Colin Newman,
Gang of Four,
Chrome,
Reagan Youth,
Gabor Szabo,
Vladislav Delay,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Blues Magoos,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hoover,
David Bowie,
Rod Modell,
Joensuu 1685,
Anthony Braxton,
CMW,
Charles Mingus,
Television Personalities,
Eurythmics,
Idris Muhammad,
Sonic Youth,
Rosa Yemen,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Aural Exciters,
X-Ray Spex,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
One Last Wish,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gong,
Magma,
Al Stewart,
Pole,
Agent Orange,
Outsiders,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Metal Thangz,
Procol Harum,
Alice Coltrane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.